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| Tekijä: | Soper, K. |
| Otsikko: | Conceptualizing needs in the context of consumer politics |
| Lehti: | Journal of Consumer Policy
2006 : DEC, VOL. 29:4, p. 355-372 |
| Asiasana: | consumption development human rights |
| Kieli: | eng |
| Tiivistelmä: | This paper aims to clear up the concept of need in the context of current thinking of consumption and development, the links between the provision for basic needs, and the observance of human rights. This article offers philosophical analysis of the concept of basic needs in relation to others more prominent in consumption theory such as desires, wants, preferences relating its discussion to controversies between universalist and relativist positions in the theory of need. The paper shows that basic need satisfaction for all, now and in the future, requires a new consumption politics in the wealthier nations. |
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